Quote from: TheBATMAN on Nov 05, 2023, 11:36:43 AMAliens is the better film but I find myself revisiting Alien 3 much more often.
Basically me as well. Voted
Aliens but probably watch
Alien 3 more often.
Quote from: 426Buddy on Nov 05, 2023, 04:36:49 PMQuote from: Acid_Reign161 on Nov 05, 2023, 04:22:45 PMQuote from: Wweyland on Nov 05, 2023, 11:44:00 AMAliens is better and has aged better as well.
I'd strongly disagree with that - I *love* Aliens with a passsion, but it's aged the worst out of the three original movies - the original depicts working class space truckers that look like your average folk today, Alien 3 with the shaved heads etc could be any period... Aliens? It's pure 1980s cliches, from the hairstyles, language used, fashion, even the colonial marines armour looking very Vietnam in style - take away the CRT computer monitor on fury 161, and Alien 3 could have been filmed yesterday.
Nah, aside from some rough blue screen shots, all the effects hold up well in Aliens. Also everyone had military haircuts. Well aside from Ripley, Bishop, and Burk but I wouldnt conisider those particularly 80s cuts, maybe Ripleys but I still see that style around.
Aliens does have and 80s-ness to it but I feel like Alien has a 70s-ness to it also. Products of their time I guess
However I can agree that Alien 3 has probably aged the best over all. Other than the shoddy alien effects.
I think the reason
Alien 3 has aged well is because the prod designers didn't try to make it super 'futuristic' or how they thought styles would look. Despite GUI's existing and improving in the late 80s, the filmmakers deliberately chose to go with Zeerust look, with black screen CLIs and acid-green text and whatnot.
Star Wars, for a while at least, felt dated to me...until I saw newer media (not much, mind you)that deliberately used Zeerust-style and then the issue of it being made in the 70s never crossed my mind anymore.
EDIT: "Retraux" is the term I'm looking at. You don't go too over the top with Retraux hair styles, you mostly just go with safe, timeless haircuts, but still. Alien: Isolation did this too and so (will?)does the game Routine.